Paysheet from Lee Tidewater Cypress Company for the week ending February 14, 1956.

Log trail or walkway winding through dense undergrowth.  Logs have been hewn on one side and laid end to end.  Photo c1925.  Exact location and purpose unknown.

Cut cypress logs lying in water at the Lee Tidewater Cypress Company logging operation in Copeland, c1944.  The felled trees are ready to be dragged out of the forest and loaded on flatcars for shipment to the mill. 

Unidentified workman holding measuring cypress logs at the Lee Tidewater Cypress Company operation in Copeland, c1944.  Logs were cut into 32-foot lengths for shipment by rail to the sawmill.

Two cranes belonging to the Lee Tidewater Cypress Company, on railroad tracks, stacking piles of cut cypress logs by side of track for loading onto flatcars in Big Cypress Swamp, c1950.

Lee Tidewater Cypress Company locomotive hauling flatcars loaded with cut cypress logs out of the Big Cypress and north to the company's sawmill at Perry, FL.  Worker's quarters on left of track with railroad crossing in foreground, c1950.

2-6-2 Lee Tidewater Cypress Company steam logging locomotive engine number 4 on an Atlantic Coast Line Railroad flatcar, c1961.  Several of the company's locomotives were loaded on flatcars to be sold in Maine.  However, they sat isolated for years before they were finally transported.

Wheel detail of a 2-6-2 Lee Tidewater Cypress Company steam logging locomotive engine number 4 on an Atlantic Coast Line Railroad flatcar, c1961.  Several of the company's locomotives were loaded on flatcars to be sold in Maine.  However, they sat isolated for years before they were finally transported.

Detail of the firebox and boiler of a 2-6-2 Lee Tidewater Cypress Company steam logging locomotive engine number 4 on an Atlantic Coast Line Railroad flatcar.  Several of the company's locomotives were loaded on flatcars to be sold in Maine.  However, they sat isolated for years before they were finally transported.

A straight section of sand and shell road leading off into the distance through cypress strand. Originally captioned "Cypress stand at Turner River. The largest stands of cypress remaining in the U.S. are in Collier County."

A logging operation in progress in Big Cypress Swamp by Lee Tidewater Cypress Company, based in Copeland. There is a wheeled tong or "bicycle" (center), skidding cypress logs out of the swamp for loading onto railroad flat cars (right). A large crane, logging line, and workers are on the far right. The original typed caption reads " Logging at Lee Cypress."

A section of the logging tram line constructed by Lee Tidewater Cypress Company in Big Cypress, and used to haul cut cypress logs out of the swamp. A crane, railroad flat, and wheeled tong or "bicycle" are in the center.

Lee Tidewater Cypress officials inspecting a section of logging line in Big Cypress, used to haul cut logs out of the swamp. Rails and ties can be seen in the foreground with a work locomotive in the center. The original typed caption reads "Logging line in cypress forest north of Everglades, part of former Collier Corporation operations."